A blog’s Blogroll plays two main roles. When you add a link to your blogroll you are typically either saying:
- “I have found this site helpful, and I would like to share it with you” or
- “Here is a blog that covers some of the same subject matter as mine, and if you like my blog you might also enjoy this one.”
So politically oriented blogs tend to include like-minded others in their blogroll, for example. And blogs that are about social media often have blogroll links to others that have a similar focus.
The SMUG blogroll has been rather spartan because I haven’t updated it for about 18 months. Here’s how it looked before I began this post:
So I’m taking the opportunity of this course to both demonstrate blogroll management and to bring the SMUG blogroll up-to-date. Or actually, it’s what it looked like immediately after I did this first addition.
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Here are some more blogs that fit both of the above criteria, and which I’m therefore adding to my blogroll:
- Allfacebook
- Blog Council
- Buzzmachine
- Commoncraft
- Communication Overtones
- Don’t Get Caught
- Global Neighbourhoods
- KDPaine’s PR Measurement Blog
- Scobleizer (Robert gave me the cue to use WordPress)
- Social Media Club
- Social Media Snippets
- TechCrunch
- Techmeme
These are only a Baker’s Dozen of the 230 or so feeds in my NetNewswire feed aggregator, but they’re the ones I think will be most interesting for the SMUG student body. I also added links to some of our Mayo Clinic social media sites (on Facebook, YouTube, our News Blog and our Podcast Blog.)
Also, this course is the first one for which I’m using a YouTube screencast instead of a Slideshare.net narrated slidecast. I’ll post about how I did it in a future course. I obviously have some things to learn to improve the quality of the screencast (and make it a snappier presentation), but I think having the ability to show exactly how to do things instead of narrating still frames will be really helpful in the show-and-tell courses.
Assignments:
- Go to the sites linked above and subscribe to their feeds. See Social Media 102 on RSS feeds if you need a refresher.
- If you have a blog, create or update your blogroll. You get extra credit points for adding Social Media University, Global.